Political uses of the ancient past on social media are predominantly negative and extreme

• Chiara Bonacchi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chiara Bonacchi, Jessica Witte, Mark Altaweel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chiara.bonacchi@ed.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0872-0614

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• Jessica Witte ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chiara Bonacchi, Jessica Witte, Mark Altaweel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1144-8065

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• Mark Altaweel

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chiara Bonacchi, Jessica Witte, Mark Altaweel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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